Rainwater catchment systems help to manage stormwater, much like a green roof.

The first rainwater catchment system was installed at an elementary school in Lod, Israel.

Sustainable features include application of solar cells to the roof, rainwater catchment systems and composting toilets.

People decided to install rooftop rainwater catchment systems to collect rain in homemade concrete reservoirs.

So the embassy installed rainwater catchment systems to take advantage of the ample rainfall in the region, which averages 94 inches per year.

Examples of some of these projects include expanding community gardens, creating rainwater catchment systems, and building solar ovens.

It includes a rainwater catchment system, a weather station, a sustainable air conditioner made of cardboard, a worm-composting center and solar panels.

It includes solar panels, hydroponic growing systems, a rainwater catchment system, a weather station and a vermi composting station.

A rainwater catchment system and on-site natural waste-water treatment likewise take the building off (sewer) grid with respect to water and waste treatment.

The one at P.S. 2, in Jackson Heights, for instance, focuses on edible plants and has a rainwater catchment system.

Buildings such as schools with large roofs can be used for rainwater catchment systems, but an assessment of rainfall patterns and water requirements would need to be made.

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Some suggested and ongoing efforts to achieve this include an emphasis on infrastructural implementations and improvements of wells, rainwater catchment systems, and clean-water storage tanks.

The design offers additional energy and cost-savings benefits: geothermal and solar energy, together with a rainwater catchment systems, will allow the school to function 100 percent off the grid.

A website explains that the five houses were designed to meet the highest environmental standards by incorporating recycled and renewable materials, rainwater catchment systems, solar panels and native landscaping.

The school's facilities are geared towards sustainability and include a rainwater catchment system, a solar-powered water system for the greenhouse, edible landscaping and recycling and composting programs.

In some parts of the world, such as Bermuda and parts of Australia, homes depend on rainwater catchment systems for all of their water supplies, including potable water needs.

These rainwater catchment systems (RWCS) are widely used in some parts of the world, including the West Bank, but are almost unknown in the Gaza Strip.

AusAID partners in Kenya, for example, have constructed rainwater catchment systems at schools that not only provide safe drinking water, but also enhance the importance of the school in the local community.

The Edge had touted the proposed complex of mansions as an environmentally sustainable undertaking that would boast such features as solar energy panels, a rainwater catchment system and on-site electric vehicle charging.

By this time next year the West Mall Annex building, and possibly other buildings on campus, will have a rooftop rainwater catchment system that provides high-quality water for a variety of uses on campus.

Evans has publicized the pains he has taken to design his home and other residences to meet the highest environmental standards, using recycled and renewable materials, rainwater catchment systems, solar panels and California native landscaping.

These include a central park, irrigated with seawater, a subway line, bicycle lanes, rainwater catchment systems, pneumatic waste collection system, ... Finally, 75% of the waste generated by the construction of the city will be recycled.

"We call it 'the movement that's taking the nation by storm,'" said Robyn Hadley, spokeswoman for the Austin, Texas-based American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association, whose membership has jumped by more than 40 percent this year.

Typical characteristics of BIA installations include: recirculating hydroponics, waste heat captured from a building's heating-ventilation-air condition system (HVAC), solar photovoltaics or other forms of renewable energy, rainwater catchment systems, and evaporative cooling.